Harry Houdini Quotes
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No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
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It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.
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How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
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I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.
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Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
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But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
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Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.
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An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
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But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
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I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
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I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.
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I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
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I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.
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A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
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My Brain is the key that sets me free.
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The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
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Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.
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They do tricks even I can't figure out.
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The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.